Behind the cats, in an open space not far away.

Originally, there were only five little mice huddled together and shivering.

Now, it's black and crushed with these pointy, round-eared, gray-skinned, long-tailed rodents.

Each two of them are made into a pair, with knotted tails and heads facing the same direction, neatly stacked on the ground, like small radishes sold by the owner of the vegetable stall in the morning market. It's just that unlike the five previous ones who still shivered, these new rats all closed their eyes tightly and didn't move.

If it weren't for the slight twitching of their noses and the occasional twitching of their beards, proving that they were still alive, the scene would have been reminiscent of the horrors that had taken place in Auschwitz.

"The condition of this shipment is a bit poor. Dr. Xiao squatted in front of the pile of rats with his notebook, and from time to time he rummaged twice with the feathers of the quills in his hand to look at the teeth and tails of the mice, and then wrote and drew in his black notebook.

"That's it...... The rats in the school are almost extinct, and I think it's very difficult to get enough of them. The black cat walked around the mouse, pacing unhurriedly, and said nonchalantly, "In fact, even if there are extra cages in the store, there is no way for my cat group to provide more mice...... Unless you're willing to replace them with squirrels or hamsters, there's a lot more to those little things. ”

A squirrel or a hamster is definitely not good, Xiao Xiao knows this.

The shop that the Sin Hunters planned to open on the pedestrian street was not a pet shop, and according to Zheng Qing's opinion at the previous plenary meeting of the Knights, the shop they opened should belong to the tertiary industry - this can be seen from the name of the store that they finally decided on after holding several plenary meetings of the society.

The full name of the new store they intend to open is 'Ding-Ding-Finance-and-Kill-Kill-Bug-Co.,Ltd', or 'D&K', which means 'Ding Ding Finance and Bugicide Co.,Ltd.' - Ding Ding is similar to the sound made when a jade coin falls into the bag, so the onomatopoeia name has been unanimously approved by all the members of the company, and the concept of 'killing insects' comes from a series of tasks recently arranged by the school.

Due to the early return of silence this year, the ecological chain of the entire Phuket Island has changed to a certain extent, the most direct impact of which is the emergence of more and more 'troublesome creatures' on the campus - including swarms of corpse-eating beetles, as well as rats, eight-eyed spiders, five-legged monsters, red-chained snakes, etc.

As the heart of the wizarding world, First University naturally won't allow its backyard to be wreaked havoc by these dirty little bugs. Therefore, the university issued a series of tasks, requiring all colleges and research institutes to clean up these 'bugs' as soon as possible.

Naturally, it is impossible for the professor to catch mice, and there is no such method of degrading the noble, and the school workers have more and more important things to do in addition to their respective tasks. The heads of several houses had a little bit of a meeting in private, and they threw these little troubles to the energetic young wizards in the school.

It is also known as 'practical exercise'.

Whether catching mice or corpse beetles can play a role in exercising, Zheng Qing is deeply skeptical. But given that this task is about 10 percent of their final counselor evaluations, few people dare to be sloppy in this matter.

Just because you can't handle an errand doesn't mean you can't be lazy.

Even in the wizarding world—the rules are dead, but people are alive—wealthy students pay for others to help catch bugs, mice, red-chained snakes, spiders, and other small animals, and those who don't have money but study well will exchange homework and note-taking for enough prey.

Only those students who are not good at studying, have a bad family background, and have average popularity have to drill into the dark corners such as grass and ditches every week to catch those bugs that seem to never be caught.

The wizards of the Order of Sin Viciousness naturally do not belong to the last category of students - although they don't have much capital and not everyone has a good academic record, they can't bear to have a captain who is open.

Since Zheng Qing gathered a group of cat brothers, Lao Yao's task of catching a hundred mice a week was like a game for him. He only had to pick a leisurely day, and after dinner, he would turn around and go to the woods to say hello, and the large and small hairballs would be obediently presented with fat rats.

In the first few days, Zheng Qing still had the heart to pick fat and thin.

Don't want a mouse with bald fur, a baby mouse less than a month old, a pregnant female, a mouse with mutilated limbs and a bitten off tail – he just wants a mouse with shiny fur and a strong body.

This kind of rat will naturally have more face than other people's mice.

Soon, the rest of the Knights of the Guilty Order knew Zheng Qing's tricks - including Xiao Xiao, Zhang Jixin and other members of the Nine Colleges of the Knights, they all asked their leaders to treat them equally and help them catch mice.

Zheng Qing naturally patted his chest and agreed.

For him, this is not a difficult task, but it is just a little more instructive work of those cat brothers.

As the saying goes, food and clothing think **, this sentence can be sublimated, which can be understood according to Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory as after physiological and safety needs are satisfied, people will pursue socialization, respect and self-needs.

In other words, since catching rats is not a difficult task for Zheng Qing, can they make full use of this 'excess capacity' to create higher benefits? Whether it is exchanging surplus rats for money or deepening their relationship with the rest of the class, it is much more cost-effective than releasing unwanted rats back into the wild.

The first to put forward the relevant idea was not Zheng Qing, not Xiao Xiao, or Elder Zhang Da, who was born in a family, but the little wizard Lin Guo who had eaten hundreds of meals in Beta Town since he was a child.

"Aren't we going to open a store in Beta? Isn't there a ready-made staple?!" During a plenary meeting to discuss the name of the new store, the little wizard suddenly turned the conversation to the future.

After the store opened, what kind of business to do was a headache for everyone—it was true that Zheng Qing's original idea was just to find a more spacious and comfortable gathering place for the Knights of Sins outside of school, just like those societies in Alpha Academy. As for what business to do after opening the store, according to his idea, it is to do whatever there is, anyway, it is part-time, and not bothering is the first of all requirements.

"We can't occupy such a good place and only sell old books, notes, inefficient magic potions...... Of course, I'm not saying that your talisman is bad, Captain, but no matter how good your talisman is, can it compare to the massive wholesale cost of the Grimm grocery store?

"Comparative advantage, comparative advantage...... Without comparison, you can't see the advantage. ”

"Since it's easy for you to catch mice, captain, that's naturally our biggest advantage!"